With a growing demand for seabasing capability, strategic mobility and focus on expeditionary warfare, the US is examining a range of seabasing concepts, including a Heavy Air Lift Seabasing Ship (HALSS) based around a trimaran hullfom As authors from SAIC and Lockheed Martin explained in a recent presentation, the HALSS concept has been evaluated with sponsorship from the Center for the Commercial Deployment of Transportation Technology (CCDoTT), and SAIC has conducted a series of studies to assess the High Speed Trimaran (HST) ship concept for various commercial and military applications.
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